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The American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when both the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and Turf and Sports Digest (TSD) magazine began naming an annual champion ...
Ruffian missed the rest of the two-year-old season but her five wins were sufficient to earn her the Eclipse Award for American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. [1] Ruffian was also voted the 2-year-old "Horse of the Year" by Turf & Sport Digest as well as the 1974 "Filly 2 year old Champion" [Reference: Turf & Sport Digest January 1975. Front ...
The American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when the Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion.
Champagne Room was named Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 2016 with 202 votes, the horse closest to her in votes was New Money Honey with 21. [5] She made her 3-year-old debut in the GII Las Virgenes Stakes on February 5, [6] where she finished 3rd 1 1/4 lengths behind second-place finisher Mopotism and 10 lengths behind the winner, Unique Bella. [7]
The Eclipse Awards were created by three independent bodies in 1971 to honor the champions of the sport. [1] Due to conflicting award winners for Horse of the Year in five years from 1949 to 1970, racing executive J.B. Faulconer gathered the interests of Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA), making them compromise on a unified set of awards, which would be called ...
Malathaat: American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, American Champion Older Dirt Female Horse and winner of the Ashland Stakes, Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes. Man o' War: often considered America's greatest racehorse; won 20 of 21 career starts; Manhattan Cafe: Winner of 3 Japanese Grade I races; Maruzensky: Undefeated Japanese racehorse
Wonder Wheel is a dark bay or brown filly who was bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm and Clearsky Farms and was a $275,000 purchase at the 2021 September Keeneland sale by D. J. Stables. [3] Her dam Wonder Gal was GI placed several times and a winner of $904,800 who died earlier in 2022.
Rachel Alexandra (foaled January 29, 2006) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse and the 2009 Horse of the Year.When she won the 2009 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, she became the first filly to win the race in 85 years (the last filly to win was Nellie Morse, in 1924).